SANTA BARBARA - In a case that mixed sex and a lawyer-client relationship, an arbitrator has ruled that wealthy newspaper publ...

Focus Column - By Michael J. Kump - In a recent thought-provoking article concerning the limits of Business and Professions Co...

LOS ANGELES - An AIDS-stricken man who was zapped with a stun belt during his three-strikes trial should have his sentence red...

Focus Column - By Barry J. Nadell - Most employers in California have heard about AB655, a bill authored by Assemblyman Roderi...

Dicta Column - By Alexander Polsky - Attorneys experienced in arbitration understand that one of the most valuable benefits of...

Forum Column - By Robert W. Hahn - Should the California Legislature prohibit the purchase of commercial software by state age...

LOS ANGELES - As intellectual property boutique Lyon & Lyon plans to close its doors at the end of the week, the firm's Lo...

LOS ANGELES - An Encino attorney will be sentenced Oct. 24 after pleading guilty to embezzling $138,000 from the estate of on...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Superior Court will lay off 150 newly hired clerical employees and student workers by the end of...

SAN FRANCISCO - After nearly two years of bitter counter-charges and an adverse U.S. Supreme ruling, the state Commission on J...

SACRAMENTO - California's trial lawyers have agreed to limits on construction defect suits in exchange for restoring a consume...

SAN FRANCISCO - The 1st District Court of Appeal has adopted ethics rules for arbitrators participating in the court's appella...

SANTA ANA - The controversy over the use of juvenile drug informants deepened, with the cities of Brea and Yorba Linda agreein...

LOS ANGELES - An elderly man convicted of exposing himself in a park dodged a three-strikes 26-years-to-life sentence Monday w...

SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Gray Davis announced Tuesday he has appointed Walnut Creek trial lawyer Barry Baskin to the Contra Costa ...

SAN DIEGO - The same man who a jury says kidnapped and murdered a 7-year-old girl also has been described as a cordial neighbo...

SAN DIEGO - The judge in the trial of David A. Westerfield, convicted last week of kidnapping and murdering 7-year-old Daniell...

Focus Column - By Bruce Alan Mann - WorldCom, Enron, Global Crossing, Tyco - where will it end? The U.S. markets have been sha...

SAN FRANCISCO - Two years ago, an Oakland federal jury awarded $637,000 to a Sudanese Muslim mass communications scholar who ...

Forum Column - By Emelyn Rodriguez - On top of the fallout from corporate accounting scandals that have racked the economy, Ca...

Forum Column - By Steven Zak - If I were empowered to redraft God's commandments, I'd start by adding two: "Thou shalt not com...

LOS ANGELES - San Francisco's Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe is close to acquiring as many as 15 attorneys from the Orange...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court on Monday made it more difficult for criminal defendants to gain access to police...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court Monday reminded state judges in Carson City, Nev., that the First Amendment protects l...

SAN FRANCISCO - District Attorney Terence Hallinan has created a new position in his office by effectively splitting the leade...

Focus Column - By Edward D. Burmeister and Jennifer B. George - Strange as it may seem, a foreigner who is neither a U.S. citi...

SAN DIEGO - San Diego Superior Court Judge William D. Mudd said Monday that he will hold a hearing today on a challenge to Cal...

Column by Garry Abrams - Never trust anyone in Hollywood, including your dog. Yes, I know this is rudimentary advice that hard...

SAN FRANCISCO - Securities lawyers who relished the role of giving birth to companies are now playing the role of undertaker. ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Bay Area law firms that competed desperately for talent during the dot-com boom now are rolling up the welcome...